Lyman Abbott Quotes
The affirmative reason is that she has other, and in some sense, more important work to do. It is more important than the work of government because it is the work for the protection of which governments are organized among men. Woman does not wish to turn aside from this higher work, which is itself the end of life, to devote herself to government, which exists only that this higher work may be done. Nor does she wish to divide her energies between the two. This higher work, which is itself the end of life, is Direct Ministry to Life.
that women do not want to vote At the turn of the century, it was considered perfectly reasonable for men to write and speak about what women wanted. Some women actually felt the way Abbot described as they had never been exposed to any other alternatives. However, the very fact that Abbott felt compelled to write this article in one of America’s leading publications tells us that there was a substantial number of women who wanted the vote and who were being very active in demanding same. And once women got the vote, they have tended to vote in higher proportion to the men. So Lyman was proved wrong by events. The notion that women valued their maternal and homemaker roles to the exclusion of voting, working and otherwise participating in society, happened to fit in well with a religious world view that a minority of American Christians believe even today is the mandate of God.
Lyman Abbott, 1835–1922, Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author, “Why Women Do Not Want The Suffrage”, The Atlantic Monthly, September 1903
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Lyman J. Abbott was an American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author.
